Description

Jeffrey P. Campisi is involved in representing the firm’s institutional and individual clients in securities and shareholder actions, and other complex litigation.

Mr. Campisi currently represents the College of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan in Rauch v. Vale, S.A., et al., 19-cv-00526 (E.D.N.Y.); the City of Warwick Retirement Fund in Lewis v. YRC Worldwide, Inc., et al., 19cv00001 (N.D.N.Y.), IWA Forest Industry Pension Plan in In re Textron, Inc. Securities Litigation, 19-cv-7881 (S.D.N.Y.); and represents individual investors in In re Twitter, Inc. Securities Litigation, Civil Action 4:19-7149-YRG (N.D. Cal.); In re Sundial Growers Inc. Securities Litigation, Index No.: 655178/2009 (N.Y. County Supreme Court); In re Sonim Technologies Inc. Securities Litigation, Leas Case No. 19-CIV-5564 (California Superior Court, San Mateo County); and Convery v. Jumia Technologies AG, et al., Index No. 656021/2019 (N.Y. County Supreme Court).

In the past, Mr. Campisi has represented Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement Fund (as liaison counsel) in Milbeck v. Truecar, Inc. et al., 18-cv-2612 (C.D. Cal.) ($28.25 million recovered); the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System in In re Fannie Mae 2008 Securities Litigation, 08cv7831 (S.D.N.Y.) ($170 million recovered); State Teachers’ Retirement System of Ohio in In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Securities, Derivative and ERISA Litigation, 07cv9633 (S.D.N.Y.) ($475 million recovered), one of the largest recoveries in a securities class action; the Virginia Retirement System in In re Escala Group, Inc. Securities Litigation, 06cv3518 (S.D.N.Y.) ($18 million in cash and stock recovered); the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System in In re Sequenom, Inc. Securities Litigation, 09cv921 (S.D. Cal.) ($43 million in cash and stock recovered, as of February 4, 2010, and significant corporate governance reforms) and in In re Gentiva Securities Litigation, 10cv5064 (E.D.N.Y.) ($6.5 million recovered).

Other cases include Schueneman v. Arena Pharms., et al., 10cv1959 (S.D. Cal.) ($24 million recovered); Kasper v. AAC Holdings, Inc., et al., 15cv923 (M.D. Tenn.) ($25 million recovered); In re SandRidge Energy, Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, No. CIV-13-102-W (W.D. Okla.) ($38.5 million recovered); In re Violin Memory, Inc. Securities Litigation, 13cv5486 (N.D. Cal.) ($7.5 million recovered); In re Nevsun Resources Ltd., 12cv1845 (S.D.N.Y.) (approximately $6 million settlement); In re Countrywide Financial Corporation Securities Litigation, 07cv5295 (C.D. Cal) ($624 million recovered), In re Proquest Company Securities Litigation, 06cv10619 (E.D. Mich.) ($20 million recovered), and Friedman v. Penson Worldwide, Inc., 11cv2098 (N.D. Tex.) ($6.5 million recovered).

Mr. Campisi is a graduate of Villanova University School of Law (summa cum laude), where he was a member of the Villanova Law Review and the Order of the Coif. Mr. Campisi earned a B.A. from Georgetown University (cum laude). Mr. Campisi served as a law clerk to the Late Honorable Herbert J. Hutton, United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Campisi is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits.